{"id":8172,"date":"2021-01-14T19:18:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T19:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3117815\/joe-biden-taps-trump-appointee-david-norquist-be"},"modified":"2021-01-14T19:18:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T19:18:39","slug":"joe-biden-taps-trump-appointee-david-norquist-to-be-his-temporary-defence-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/joe-biden-taps-trump-appointee-david-norquist-to-be-his-temporary-defence-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden taps Trump appointee David Norquist to be his temporary defence secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Lara Seligman on politico.com on January 14, 2021.US president-elect Joe Biden is tapping current Deputy Defence Secretary David Norquist to temporarily run the Pentagon while the new team works to confirm a permanent defence chief, according to four people familiar with discussions.Norquist, the Pentagon\u2019s No 2 since July 2019, will take over after the inauguration and be in charge until the Senate\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3117815\/joe-biden-taps-trump-appointee-david-norquist-be\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Lara Seligman on politico.com on January 14, 2021.US president-elect Joe Biden is tapping current Deputy Defence Secretary David Norquist to temporarily run t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":749,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8173,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions\/8173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}